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Tuesday, January 27, 2004
"Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour"
Volume 79 * Number 8
Outside
the
Bubble
Timothy Goddard
Editor-in-Chief
World
Iran's Guardian
Council, the unelected
religious body with broad
governmental powers, has
overturned a law that
would fhave curbed those
powers: The reformist par-.;
liament passed the law in
an attempt to allow the
8,200 candidates vetoed
by the council to stand for
election.
Nation
Massachusetts senator
John Kerry is holding his
lead in the polls going into
today's New Hampshire
Democratic Presidential
Primary, but this first primary has proved /very
unpredictable in the past.
Former Vermont governor
has pulled to wilhin three
points in the most recent
Zogby poll.
Minnesota
Three young boys were
killed in a house fire on
Sunday in Princeton. Two
brothers, aged 4 and 7, were
carried out of the house by
fire fighters, but were pronounced dead at a nearby
hospital. The body of a
third boy, a 13-ycar old
cousin, was found in the
basement after the fire had
been brought under control.
Homemade bomb explodes in Getsch
Sarah Nichols
StaffWriter
"This sort of behavior has
crossed the boundaries of an
innocent prank when people's
health and safety are at risk,"
said Jim Benjamin, associate
dean of residence life, regarding
the small explosive device set
off in the entry of Getsch residence hall on the morning of
Jan. 10.
The bomb, made of a plastic soda bottle, household chemicals, and aluminum foil, was
placed in the airway of the west
entrance to Getsch and explod
ed around three a.m. While no
one was injured, the building
was immediately evacuated as
the sheriff and fire departments
arrived to investigate.
Getsch residents were ushered into the main buildings and
spent a long morning waiting to
be allowed back into their
dorms. One of the evacuated
residents, freshman Anne
Mickelson, described her
uncomfortable morning: "My
friends and I slept in front of the
P.O.s."
At about eight o'clock the
building was reopened, and
doughnuts were provided for
the students. "I appreciated the
Krispy Kremes," Mickelson
said, "but it didn't really make
up for it."
Before students were
allowed to reenter the residence
following the explosion, an
environmental services provider
was called in to analyze and
clean the airway, which was
similar to that of a smoke bomb.
The cost for the cleanup totaled
to more than three thousand
dollars.
"While some may consider
this sort of incident to be
humorous, they should understand that the cleanup needed
after this sort of event costs
Bethel thousands of dollars,"
said Bruce Kunkel, vice president for campus services.
This is not the first prank
that has been played in Getsch
this year. Students report that
the building is regularly
"TPed," rooms have been filled
with leaves and dog refuse, and
a dead raccoon was found in
one of the restrooms.
Article continued on
Pg-2
Terroristic threat trial likely to begin in March
Timothy Goddard
Editor-in-Chief
The trial of former Bethel
Seminary student Thomas
Glander has been delayed and
will likely be held sometime in
early March, as the defense and
prosecution continue to battle
over what evidence can be used
in the trial. Glander has been
charged with writing a terroristic threat on his truck during the
spree of racial graffiti last
spring.
The most recent pre-trial
hearing was held on Jan. 12 and
13, and the trial was expected to
start shortly thereafter. After a
new argument by the defense,
however, Judge Joanne Smith
scheduled what will probably
be the case's final pre-trial hearing for Feb. 2.
Defense attorney Robert
Fowler argued that a statement
made by Glander to a Ramsey
County Sheriff's deputy be suppressed. Since Glander was then
a full-time volunteer chaplain
for the Sheriff's Department,
Fowler insisted that the defendant was worried of losing his
position and became coerced
into making the statement,
which therefore makes it inadmissible as evidence. Fowler
cited as precedent the 1967
Supreme Court case of Garrity
v. New Jersey, in which the
court ruled that the state could
not force public officials such as
police officers to give testimony
by threatening to take away
their jobs.
Clayton Robinson, Assistant
Director of the Prosecution
Division of the Ramsey County
Attorney's Office, countered in
cross-examination that as the
position was unpaid, it was not
actually employment, and so the
testimony should not be suppressed.
Smith gave both the defense
and prosecution until the Feb. 2
hearing to submit briefs regarding this argument.
The defense was unsuccessful in its attempt to suppress any
mention of the other incidents
of racial graffiti on campus.
"I want this trial to focus on
my client's actual alleged
behavior," Fowler argued, "and
not rum this into a circus of a
trial going back two years [into
past incidents at Bethel]." He
also argued that mention of
these incidents would implicate
Glander's involvement and
therefore prejudice the jury
against him.
Robinson insisted, to which
Smith agreed in her ruling, that
the prosecution needed to be
able to reference these events in
order to make the case that
Glander "intentionally took
advantage of the atmosphere of
fear" at Bethel, and that the
threat on his vehicle amounts to
a "terroristic threat" under
Minnesota law (see sidebar).
That was not the only hint of
potential arguments to arise
when the trial actually begins.
Fowler suggested the defense
might argue that prior to the
incident in question, "it was not
general knowledge on the
Bethel campus" that there had
been a spree of racial threats
and graffiti, and so the "atmosphere of fear" described by
Robinson did not exist until
afterwards.
Minnesota statute
609.713 Subdivision 1:
Whoever threatens,
directly or indirectly, to
commit any crime of violence with purpose to terrorize another or to cause
evacuation of a building,
place of assembly, vehicle
or facility of public transportation or otherwise to
cause serious public
inconvenience, or in a
reckless disregard of the
risk of causing such terror
or inconvenience may be
sentenced to imprisonment for not more than
five years or to payment
of a fine of not more than
$10,000, or both.
Urbana '03
follow-up
Page 3
The sport of the season
Page 9
Royal basketball teams
competing successfully
Page 14

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Tuesday, January 27, 2004
"Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour"
Volume 79 * Number 8
Outside
the
Bubble
Timothy Goddard
Editor-in-Chief
World
Iran's Guardian
Council, the unelected
religious body with broad
governmental powers, has
overturned a law that
would fhave curbed those
powers: The reformist par-.;
liament passed the law in
an attempt to allow the
8,200 candidates vetoed
by the council to stand for
election.
Nation
Massachusetts senator
John Kerry is holding his
lead in the polls going into
today's New Hampshire
Democratic Presidential
Primary, but this first primary has proved /very
unpredictable in the past.
Former Vermont governor
has pulled to wilhin three
points in the most recent
Zogby poll.
Minnesota
Three young boys were
killed in a house fire on
Sunday in Princeton. Two
brothers, aged 4 and 7, were
carried out of the house by
fire fighters, but were pronounced dead at a nearby
hospital. The body of a
third boy, a 13-ycar old
cousin, was found in the
basement after the fire had
been brought under control.
Homemade bomb explodes in Getsch
Sarah Nichols
StaffWriter
"This sort of behavior has
crossed the boundaries of an
innocent prank when people's
health and safety are at risk,"
said Jim Benjamin, associate
dean of residence life, regarding
the small explosive device set
off in the entry of Getsch residence hall on the morning of
Jan. 10.
The bomb, made of a plastic soda bottle, household chemicals, and aluminum foil, was
placed in the airway of the west
entrance to Getsch and explod
ed around three a.m. While no
one was injured, the building
was immediately evacuated as
the sheriff and fire departments
arrived to investigate.
Getsch residents were ushered into the main buildings and
spent a long morning waiting to
be allowed back into their
dorms. One of the evacuated
residents, freshman Anne
Mickelson, described her
uncomfortable morning: "My
friends and I slept in front of the
P.O.s."
At about eight o'clock the
building was reopened, and
doughnuts were provided for
the students. "I appreciated the
Krispy Kremes," Mickelson
said, "but it didn't really make
up for it."
Before students were
allowed to reenter the residence
following the explosion, an
environmental services provider
was called in to analyze and
clean the airway, which was
similar to that of a smoke bomb.
The cost for the cleanup totaled
to more than three thousand
dollars.
"While some may consider
this sort of incident to be
humorous, they should understand that the cleanup needed
after this sort of event costs
Bethel thousands of dollars,"
said Bruce Kunkel, vice president for campus services.
This is not the first prank
that has been played in Getsch
this year. Students report that
the building is regularly
"TPed," rooms have been filled
with leaves and dog refuse, and
a dead raccoon was found in
one of the restrooms.
Article continued on
Pg-2
Terroristic threat trial likely to begin in March
Timothy Goddard
Editor-in-Chief
The trial of former Bethel
Seminary student Thomas
Glander has been delayed and
will likely be held sometime in
early March, as the defense and
prosecution continue to battle
over what evidence can be used
in the trial. Glander has been
charged with writing a terroristic threat on his truck during the
spree of racial graffiti last
spring.
The most recent pre-trial
hearing was held on Jan. 12 and
13, and the trial was expected to
start shortly thereafter. After a
new argument by the defense,
however, Judge Joanne Smith
scheduled what will probably
be the case's final pre-trial hearing for Feb. 2.
Defense attorney Robert
Fowler argued that a statement
made by Glander to a Ramsey
County Sheriff's deputy be suppressed. Since Glander was then
a full-time volunteer chaplain
for the Sheriff's Department,
Fowler insisted that the defendant was worried of losing his
position and became coerced
into making the statement,
which therefore makes it inadmissible as evidence. Fowler
cited as precedent the 1967
Supreme Court case of Garrity
v. New Jersey, in which the
court ruled that the state could
not force public officials such as
police officers to give testimony
by threatening to take away
their jobs.
Clayton Robinson, Assistant
Director of the Prosecution
Division of the Ramsey County
Attorney's Office, countered in
cross-examination that as the
position was unpaid, it was not
actually employment, and so the
testimony should not be suppressed.
Smith gave both the defense
and prosecution until the Feb. 2
hearing to submit briefs regarding this argument.
The defense was unsuccessful in its attempt to suppress any
mention of the other incidents
of racial graffiti on campus.
"I want this trial to focus on
my client's actual alleged
behavior," Fowler argued, "and
not rum this into a circus of a
trial going back two years [into
past incidents at Bethel]." He
also argued that mention of
these incidents would implicate
Glander's involvement and
therefore prejudice the jury
against him.
Robinson insisted, to which
Smith agreed in her ruling, that
the prosecution needed to be
able to reference these events in
order to make the case that
Glander "intentionally took
advantage of the atmosphere of
fear" at Bethel, and that the
threat on his vehicle amounts to
a "terroristic threat" under
Minnesota law (see sidebar).
That was not the only hint of
potential arguments to arise
when the trial actually begins.
Fowler suggested the defense
might argue that prior to the
incident in question, "it was not
general knowledge on the
Bethel campus" that there had
been a spree of racial threats
and graffiti, and so the "atmosphere of fear" described by
Robinson did not exist until
afterwards.
Minnesota statute
609.713 Subdivision 1:
Whoever threatens,
directly or indirectly, to
commit any crime of violence with purpose to terrorize another or to cause
evacuation of a building,
place of assembly, vehicle
or facility of public transportation or otherwise to
cause serious public
inconvenience, or in a
reckless disregard of the
risk of causing such terror
or inconvenience may be
sentenced to imprisonment for not more than
five years or to payment
of a fine of not more than
$10,000, or both.
Urbana '03
follow-up
Page 3
The sport of the season
Page 9
Royal basketball teams
competing successfully
Page 14